A Look At The Weekend Action

13 April 2013 06:14

Home mauling brings stark relegation fears back to the fore with drop into the bottom three……………

………………Barnsley went into this match looking for their eighth home win in nine games under David Flitcroft but instead suffered their heaviest EVER league defeat in the Football League! It is their biggest home defeat in all competitions for 16 years, when they were hit for six by Chelsea in the Premier League in August 1997.

Barnsley ended the game with nine men following the sending offs of Stephen Dawson and Tom Kennedy. Before today The Reds had suffered only one league red card this season- to Bobby Hassell back in August. It was Dawson’s second red card of his career; his first was for Bury in 2009. It is the first red that Kennedy has ever received.

Today was also the first time the Reds have failed to score at Oakwell under Flitcroft.

Amazingly Barnsley had played five top seven teams in their previous six matches, winning three and drawing two. Today a team who were 12th before the game hammered them.

Barnsley Team:

Luke Steele

Bobby Hassell

Stephen Foster

Scott Wiseman

Tom Kennedy (RC)

Stephen Dawson (RC)

David Perkins

Tomasz Cywka

Jacob Mellis

Chris O’Grady

Chris Dagnall

Substitutes:

Jason Scotland (for Cywka 29)

Marlon Harewood (for O’Grady 57)

Jim O’Brien (for Mellis 60)

Unused Substitutes:

Ben Alnwick, Martin Cranie, Andrai Jones, Danny Rose.

Match Reports:

FootyMad

Official Website

BBC

Sky Sports

Npower Championship results Saturday 13th April 2013:

Leeds 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday

BARNSLEY 0-6 Charlton

Blackburn 2-0 Derby

Blackpool 1-0 Burnley

Bristol City 1-2 Bolton

Cardiff 3-0 Nottingham Forest

Ipswich 1-2 Hull

Middlesbrough 0-2 Brighton

Peterborough 3-2 Watford

Wolves 1-3 Huddersfield

Barnsley lie in 22nd place in the Npower Championship with 49 points from 42 games.

We are 14 points off the Play-Offs 28 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 34 points off First place and 1 point inside the Relegation Zone.